Ocean West Holding Corp., Tustin, Calif., has announced an agreement between its subsidiary Ocean West Enterprises and Freedom Mortgage Corp. of New Jersey under which Ocean West will manage a new division of Freedom Mortgage.The holding company said the agreement will enable both Ocean West and Freedom Mortgage to increase originations by using the latter's warehouse lines, in return for which Ocean West will split the net profits of the new division with Freedom Mortgage. Freedom Mortgage has approximately $240 million in warehouse lending capacity. Ocean West, a mortgage banking company, can be found online at http://www.oceanwest.com.
-
A tour of the technology that banking has run on, dating back to Franklin's anti-counterfeit measures and the bank-note bulletin that preceded American Banker.
July 3 -
Issuances of new HECM-backed securities dropped off in June on both a monthly and yearly basis, according to a new report from New View Advisors.
July 2 -
The vote to approve the $12 per share deal, which rejected a hostile bid from UWM Holdings, came following several postponements of a special meeting.
July 2 -
A mortgage customer claims his data was compromised in a hack last year at a tax and accounting firm reportedly used by the wholesale giant.
July 2 -
The government-sponsored enterprise clamped down on project review requirements and certain factory-built home appraisals while loosening other guidelines.
July 2 -
The June jobs report is creating an overhang on economist forecasts for interest rates going forward, especially when combined with recent inflation data.
July 2









